* Fairbanks Fragments ( 1916 – 1918 ) also screenwriter

* 1914 – 1918, the First Battle of the Atlantic took place.

* Emperor Charles I. of Austria ( 1916 – 1918 ) http :// www. youtube. com / watch? v = jMU9FFzez1A

* 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president ( d. 1982 )

* 1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander ( d. 1918 )

* 1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor ( d. 1918 )

* 1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales: U. S. Army forces skirmish against Mexican Carrancistas and their German advisors in the only battle of World War I fought on American soil.

* 1918 – Jelle Zijlstra, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – Norman Granz, American record producer ( d. 2001 )

* 1918 – World War I: The Flight over Vienna mission, when a dozen Italian Servizio Aeronautico single-engined military aircraft drop leaflets over the main capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, demanding that both Austrian hostilities against Italy be ended, and for Austria to end its alliance with the German Empire.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and genocide claims for 1915 – 1918 events made impossible relations with Azerbaijan and Turkey, thus increased an isolation of the country.

* 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time.

* 1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG ( BMW ) established as a public company in Germany.

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

* 1918 – Frederick Sanger, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1918 – Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.

* 1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

* 1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

* 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor ( b. 1918 )

In Serbia Nikola Pašić ( 1845 – 1926 ) and his Radical Party dominated Serbian politics after 1903 ; they also monopolized power in Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1929 ; during the dictatorship of the 1930s, it furnished the prime minister.

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Larry Haines, American actor ( d. 2008 )

* 2008 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer ( b. 1918 )

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

Hélène " Hella " Serafia Haasse ( 2 February 1918 – 29 September 2011 ) was a Dutch writer, often referred to as " the Grand Old Lady " of Dutch literature, and whose novel Oeroeg ( 1948 ) was a staple for generations of Dutch schoolchildren.

* 1918 – The Battle of Ambos Nogales takes place between U. S. forces and Mexican Carrancistas aided by German military advisors.

*" U. S. Consul Gottschalk Coming To Enter The War ", The Washington Post, April 15, 1918.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

On December 9, 1918, the collegiate ( or presidium ) of VCheKa had decided to form a military section, headed by M. S. Kedrov, to combat counterrevolution in the Army.

* 1918 – B. K. S.

However, there could still be an even more complex flash-back construction in American films in the case of W. S. Van Dyke ' sThe Lady of the Dugout ( 1918 ).

The Nieuport 11 of 1916 and Royal Aircraft Factory S. E. 5 of 1918 both used this system with considerable success, however this placement made aiming difficult and the location made it difficult for a pilot to both maneuver and have access to the gun's breech.

* 1918 Gillett: U. S. Patent to use X-rays for the preservation of food

* 1918 – World War I: Battle of Belleau Wood – The U. S. Marine Corps suffers its worst single day's casualties while attempting to recapture the wood at Chateau-Thierry.

* 1918 – S. V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, director, and producer ( d. 1974 )

In that, he was encouraged by the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919, the Italian insurrection and general strikes of 1920, and industrial unrest in Britain, France, and the U. S.

* 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U. S. Congress, making criticism of the government during wartime an imprisonable offense.

* 1918 – The U. S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

Mathilde Roth Schechter ( 1857 – 1924 ) was the American founder of the U. S. National Women's League of Conservative Judaism in 1918.

* Isaac Stephenson ( 1829 – 1918 ), U. S. politician from Wisconsin

The superheterodyne principle was revisited in 1918 by U. S. Army Major Edwin Armstrong in France during World War I.

In Philadelphia, Roosevelt Boulevard, also known as U. S. 1, was named in his honor in 1918.

* Pausanias, Description of Greece, Books I-II, ( Loeb Classical Library ) translated by W. H. S. Jones ; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press ; London, William Heinemann Ltd. ( 1918 ).

U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding 1918 – 1920

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Child labor was curtailed by the Keating – Owen Act of 1916, but the U. S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918.

Child labor was curtailed by the Keating – Owen Act of 1916, but the U. S. Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918.